Bug Fixes

Greetings Everyone,

Starting this afternoon, the Japanese shards will get Publish 88 during their normal maintenance cycle. Please remember that this causes problems with character transfers until we have all the shards on the same server version.

On behalf of myself, and the UO Team, we would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. The office will be closed (except for GM coverage) on November 27th and 28th.

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Huntmaster’s Challenge
The Huntmaster at the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild now offers a monthly challenge for hunting various species throughout Britannia.
• Visit the Huntmaster NPC at the Ranger’s Guild outside Skara Brae to obtain a hunting permit via the Huntmaster’s context menu.
• Permits cost 5,000gp, the funds must be available in the player’s bank box.
• Trophies throughout the Ranger’s Guild indicate which species can be hunted, and include:

o Grizzly Bear
o Gray Wolf
o Cougar
o Turkey
o Bull
o Boar
o Walrus
o Alligator
o Eagle

• Double click on the hunting permit and target the corpse of a valid species to record the kill.
• The Permit will display the Hunter’s Name, Date of the Kill, Location of the Kill, Species of the Kill, and a measurement for the Kill.
• Taxidermy Kits can be used on the hunting permit to create a trophy for display.
• Return to the Huntmaster to submit a kill for consideration in the monthly competition.
• If a submission has the greatest wormeasurement for a species, the kill will be displayed on the trophy inside the Ranger’s Guild.
• If a submission ties the greatest measurement for a species the display on the trophy will not update, however the submitting player will be eligible for reward when the contest concludes each month.
• If a submitted kill has the greatest measurement at the end of the month, the submitting player(s) will get points for each submission to redeem rewards from the Huntmaster.
• Kills can only be submitted from the current month and year.
• The Huntmaster’s month will be updated on server maintenance, each new month the contest will reset.
• Rewards can be redeemed by double clicking on the Huntmaster, and include,

o A Harvester’s Blade
o A Horn of Plenty
o A Reward Title Deed: Huntmaster’s Champion
o A Sash – “Member of the Skara Brae Ranger’s Guild”
VvV Leaderboards
Leaderboards have been added to VvV.

New Horn of Plenty Items
A new house plant has been added to the Cornucopia.
• The house plant must be locked down to grow.
• The house plant will grow each day on server up.
• Once the house plant has reached its full growth state, it will produce fruit.
• Fruit can be harvested from the house plant by double clicking on it.
• House plants are maintenance free.

2014 Holiday Items
Characters that are at least 30 days old that log in between 12/1/2014 12:01 AM ET and 1/1/2015 12:01 AM ET will receive a randomly hued gift box that contains the following:
• New green, blue, or gold fireplace.

o Fireplaces can be ignited and doused by double clicking on the center piece.

• A grinder that can be used to grind various plant products.
• A steam powered beverage maker that can be used in conjunction with the cooking system to create new items listed in the “Beverage” section of the cooking menu.
• A Power Scroll Book

o The powerscroll book can hold 300 power scroll, no more of 99 than any specific scroll.
o The book be must locked down in a house in order to add scrolls.
o Stat power scrolls cannot be added to the book.
Vet Rewards
The following items have been added as new vet rewards,
• 1 Year

o Flesh Renderer Statuette

• 2 Year

o Crystal Elemental Statuette

• 3 Year

o Dark Father Statuette

• 4 Year

o Platinum Dragon Statuette

• 7 Year

o Sewing Machine & Smithing Press
• The Sewing Machine & Smithing Press are house-addons that can be used in conjunction with the tailoring and blacksmithy skill, respectively.
• The machines will hold 5000 charges of their respective tools.
• Add charges to the Sewing Machine by dropping sewing kits on the stool.
• Add charges to the Blacksmith Press by dropping smith’s hammers, sledge hammers, or tongs on the crates.
• Runic, Ancient, or specialty crafting tools cannot be added to the power tools.
• Security can be set on the power tool to limit who can use and deposit tools into the attached stool or crates.

• 15 Year

o Ethereal Hell Hound Mount

Bug Fixes & Misc Changes
• The crystal portal will now teleport players to the Trinsic Royal Bank instead of the Bank of Britannia: Trinsic Branch.
• Magic items generated from treasure chests have had their base budgets increased based on the difficulty of the treasure chest.
• The following items are now stackable: Grass & Snow Tiles, Dread Horn.
• Trade Crates will now accept 1000 stones.
• Paladins have returned to the City of Trinsic
• Lifestealers now have the correct karma.
• Delivering trade orders will no longer increase karma if it is locked.
• Treasures of Doom has been reactivated and extended until server up on 12/6/2014.
• During Governor elections “Governor, “ will be prepended to the name of the incumbent on the various voting gumps.
• Minor pigments can now be combined up to 50 charges.
• The Grinder can now work when locked down in a house
• Fireplaces now function as a fire source for cooking.
• Hunting Permits can no longer be used on living animals.
• Unused tiles inadvertently created by hunting permits will be deleted on server up.
• VvV Score Points have been reduced by a factor of 100 to accommodate their values in the Leaderboard gump.
• VvV Score points will be awarded on a 1:1 basis for guilds that win or tie the max points in a VvV battle.
• VvV Score points will be awarded on a 0.5:1 basis for guilds that do not win or tie the max points in a VvV battle.

Greetings Everyone,

We will be publishing all shards starting tomorrow morning, all shards will receive Publish 87 during your normal maintenance cycles, European shards will get this tomorrow afternoon during their normal maintenance cycles.  Since we have been so late this year with Halloween and Anniversary rewards we have turned them back on.  The 17th Anniversary Gifts will be turned back on and can be claimed until November 18, at 11:59 pm.  Halloween Trick or Treating will be available until server up on November 19, 2014.  Treasures of Doom will continue until server up on December 1, 2014.  Enjoy everyone!!!

Halloween – Treasures of Doom

• Visit the Research Camp located outside of the Dungeon Doom in Malas to learn about an archeological investigation. You can also resurrect at the camp.
  • Slaying monsters inside Dungeon Doom gives a chance for an Artifact of Doom to drop in the players backpack. Luck and creature difficulty will positively influence the chance at receiving an artifact of doom, being hidden will decrease the chance at receiving an artifact of doom.
• Artifacts of Doom can be turned into the NPC at the research camp in exchange for,
  • [Your Character’s Name]’s Lantern of Light
  • Tincture of Silver – can be applied to weapons, spellbooks, and certain instruments to give a slayer bonus against creatures within Doom, while becoming vulnerable to undead.
  • Antique Documents Kit – crafting ingredient required for the crating of “Prophetic Manuscripts”
  • Reward Title Deeds – Usable deed that will grant the users various titles
    • The Atoned
    • Defender of the Living
    • Preserver of the Faith
  • Crook of Humility – A Shepherd’s Crook
    • Veterinary +10
    • Wolf Slayer
    • Spell Channeling
    • Intelligence + 10
    • Damage Increase -20%
  • Scepter of Pride – Scepter
    • Demon Slayer
    • Undead Slayer
    • Hit Stamina Leech 70%
    • Hit Life Leech 70%
    • Hit Mana Leech 70%
    • Swing Speed Increase 30%
  • Cloak of Light – Cloak
    • Hit Point Regeneration 2
    • Night Sight
    • Hit Chance Increase 5%
  • Boots of Escaping
    • Dexterity Bonus 4
    • Stamina Regeneration 1
  • Sterling Silver Ring
    • Meditation +20
    • Hit Point Regeneration 3
    • Mana Regeneration 5
    • Damage Increase 75%
    • Additional +20 skill bonus applied by double clicking the ring and selecting from the available skills
• Prophetic Manuscripts
  • Craftable via the Inscription menu under “Other”
  • Requires ancient parchments (10), wood pulp (10), antique documents kit (1), and beeswax (5).
  • Failure will only consume ancient parchments, wood pulp, and beeswax.
  • There are 5 different prophetic manuscript texts, randomly assigned when successfully crafted.
• Treasures of Doom will be available for a limited time during the Halloween season, and recur with various tweaks in successive years.

Halloween – Trick or Treating

• Three new monster skulls have been added to Trick or Treating! Trick or Treating will be available during the remainder of the month of October.

Enhanced Client Bug Fixes

• Switching to legacy containers no longer makes the contents invisible
• Fixed odd visible lines above the targeting window
• Vendor Search Gump now functions properly
• Container auto loot no longer breaks after you use it for awhile
• Disabled icons no longer prevent users from using spells/skills/actions on hotbar
• Advanced health bars are no longer locked by default
• Bug report window once again closes when submitting issues
• Advanced health bar properly changes hue based on health bar state
• Borders can once again be placed on hotbar items
• Buff/Debuff Icons now properly scale with bar
• Buff/Debuff icons no longer display over all UI elements
• Maneuvering the atlas around the world no longer will crash client
• Fixed long pause when opening containers
• Paperdoll window, target window, buff bars, and status bar can no longer go outside of the game window
• Default UI Scale is now set to 1 from 0.85
• Enable auto run is set on by default
• Main menu action is now on the hotbar for newly created user profiles

Bug Fixes

• All players who are currently flagged as Vice vs Virtue participants will have a one time reprieve and the flag will be removed.
• Non Vice vs Virtue players that find themselves in a VvV battle city will have a new option on the warning gump to teleport them to the nearest moongate.
• VvV participation flag for non-VvV players will now be removed after 8 hours, or the participant is killed by a VvV player, whichever comes first.
• The “Unwieldy” (Items with higher than normal weights) will no longer have a chance to spawn in MIB chests.
• The loot in MIB chests will now have a higher base budget for creating magic items.
• Some situations where traps and locks were being applied to containers inside of City & Justice regions will no longer happen.
• Trade Quest crates will now be able to hold up to 550 stones and have 75% weight reduction.
• Silver points are no longer awarded to VvV players when occupying a city.
• VvV Cannon Turret cost has been reduced from 5000 to 3000 silver points.
• VvV Trap cost has been reduced from 500 to 250 silver points.
• VvV Mana Spike cost has been reduced from 2500 to 1000 points.
• VvV Mana Spike effect duration has been increased from 20 to 60 seconds.
• Trader Quest participants will no longer be able to sacred journey to a ship rune.
• Trade orders should no longer have a chance to include items with duplicate names
• Items inside a trade order crate will no longer be purchased by shop keepers.
• Spellweaving summons no longer cause a player to flag as a criminal when they are attacked by a VvV player
• Ship cargo containers will no longer be locked or trapped.
• Certain items that had missing default names will no longer be improperly placed inside of a trade crate when using “Fill from Backpack.”
• The “Unwieldy” property will no longer spawn on items that can be stolen from various containers.
• Claiming an Alter and Returning a Sigil in VvV matches have been equalized.
• The cooldown between gaining VvV match and silver points from kills has been reduced from 5 minutes to 2 minutes.
•  VvV Players who are hidden will not count towards occupying a city.

The following has been published when all shards during their regular maintenance cycles:

• The Butchers are back! Visit graveyards throughout Britannia and slay the Butchers to have a chance at a Pumpkin Carving Kit.
• Carveable pumpkins can be harvested in fields across Britannia. Watch out for the Grimms as you try to harvest a pumpkin!

Bug Fixes

• VvV steeds can no longer be mounted while dead.

Whether these are your first steps into Britannia or you are a seasoned veteran, King Blackthorn is delighted to welcome you! You are encouraged to visit the cities of Britannia and explore the various goings on. City banks are a hub for trade and socialization. Be sure to listen to Town Criers for the latest News, or check the City Bulletin Boards for updates from the City Governor. We also invite you to visit the Guild Recruitment stations in the cities of New Haven and Luna Bank as many guilds are welcoming new members!